Re: Interim step on meetings site feedback for sites currently under active consideration

["Christian O'Flaherty" <christian.oflaherty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 19, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It should be pretty easy for the IAD to measure this by comparing the list of newcomers in Argentina to the list of participants in Berlin, for example.  

But I was interested in addressing this part:

 I'm very hopeful that some of the
> South Americans who attended their first IETF meeting because
> it was held in Buenos Aires will continue to participate (as in:
> bring in work and participate in ongoing work, and not as in: sit
> in meetings)

that would be, for example, WG mailing list contributions from Latin America (or at least subscriptions since IETF95) .

it’s very difficult to measure… but I’m open to suggestions. 

Christian

I am fairly sure that they already do this, and possibly may even have made presentations about it from time to time at the plenary... :)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Christian O'Flaherty <christian.oflaherty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/18/16 9:09 AM, Dan Harkins wrote:
>> But
>> I think these issues should be balanced with the overall benefit
>> that the IETF World Tour provides.
>
> As I've said repeatedly, I don't think the world tour actually
> does bring much benefit.  I'm very hopeful that some of the
> South Americans who attended their first IETF meeting because
> it was held in Buenos Aires will continue to participate (as in:
> bring in work and participate in ongoing work, and not as in: sit
> in meetings) but historically that has not been the case.


BTW… if there’s a way to keep track and measure that additional active participation from Latin America I’ll be happy to do it.

I’m open to suggestions on how it can be than.

Christian




> I also
> think that the world tour tends to have the unintended side-effect
> of overemphasizing the importance of meetings to our process.
>
> Also, note that a large number of regulars opted to skip the meeting
> in Buenos Aires.  Granted, there are those who might see that as
> a benefit.
>
> Melinda
>